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                        hms belfast 1/600 airfix question

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                        Misty
                        • Member since
                          January 2012
                        • From: Hatfield
                        hms belfast 1/600 airfix question
                        Posted by Misty on Friday, March 1, 2013 2:38 AM

                        on the hull there are lines of "pimples". in photos they look like either portholes or openings. Can anyone please tell me what they are, and if they should be through holes or glazed or drilled and blanked off?

                        ta.

                        Building -  WAH 64D

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                        P mitch
                        • Member since
                          October 2008
                        • From: England
                        Posted by P mitch on Friday, March 1, 2013 3:08 AM

                        Check the web site below, sure you will be able to find something to help you there

                        hms belfast

                        Phil

                        "If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane which is so bloody complicated you can't understand it, take it from me: it's all balls." R J Mitchell


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                        warshipguy
                        • Member since
                          September 2005
                        • From: Groton, CT
                        Posted by warshipguy on Friday, March 1, 2013 9:11 AM

                        Please be careful with using the real HMS Belfast as any kind of guide for building the Airfix kit; the kit depicts her during WWII and the ship is as she existed at the end of her service life in 1963, although she is painted in a WWII camouflage scheme.  I would research photos of her as she existed at the time you wish to model her.

                        Bill

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                        Misty
                        • Member since
                          January 2012
                        • From: Hatfield
                        Posted by Misty on Friday, March 1, 2013 12:43 PM

                        I will Warshipguy, but even the wartime photos dont show the sides covered in little pimples Whistling , am trying to figure out what they are/were so i can maybe do something about it Wink

                        Building -  WAH 64D

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                        ddp59
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                          April 2005
                        Posted by ddp59 on Friday, March 1, 2013 2:21 PM

                        if just below decklevel then they are portholes. i have at least 6 plus of her to build into different ships. have a look at this link of her. www.world-war.co.uk/.../belfast.php3

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